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Metagaming, degenerate behaviour and various strategies based on unbalanced game features are present in [[IVAN ]] just as in any other game. Here you can find the ways how to bypass the game balance for profit and victory.
Note that many strategies described below can be denounced as outright abuse.
== Exploits ==
Exploits are strategies considered by some to be against the spirit of the game , or certain intended features which are widely seen as border on the overpowered in the current release. There are no rules or protection against these actions, so other people may consider them to be a legitimate strategy.
=== Artificial Limbs ===
[[Scroll of Change Material]] can be used on more then you equipment - and as long as the material you change your limb into is not organic, your limb will get [[attribute]]s based on the statistics of the [[Materials|material]]. High material strength increases your [[AStr]]/[[LStr]] while high flexibility increases [[Dex]]/[[Agi]]. Note that artificial limbs do not heal on their own like organic limbs do, but you can still repair them using a scroll of repair or the shops in [[Attnam]].
Also note that it is possible to receive an artificial limb from a [[god ]] you pray to if you are missing a limb. The god will pick one of its attached materials and create a limb of this material for you. Consult the material table [[here|Materialslist of materials]].
In the table below, you can find a representative sample of some materials artificial limbs can be made of and the associated [[attribute]]s, including the amount of [[Hit Points]] your limbs will have. The table assumes you have both limbs made of the material in question (e.g. two iron arms).
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=== Broken Bottles Trick ===
An easy and safe way of raising your [[Endurance]], it also utilises the mostly useless trash in the form of broken [[bottles]]. As you gain Endurance from healing taken [[damage]], it's normally associated with the risk of getting hurt too much by attacking [[monsters]] and dying. However, you can game the system by throwing a bottle at the wall, breaking it, and then stepping on the square containing the broken bottle barefoot. You will injure your leg on the sharp shards and can then wait until your leg heals. Rinse and repeat until you start seeing increases in your Endurance. Note that you must do this trick without any [[boots]] on, as the damage dealt by a broken bottle is minimal. This makes the trick very safe, as you won't endanger your legs, but wearing boots will block the damage completely.
=== Genetrix Training ===
=== Invincible Items ===
''See [[Invincible Items|here]].'' While unbreakable items are not easy to exploit, there are certain strategies that stretch the suspense of disbelief when the player uses them. For example, [[scrolls]] can [[Fire|burn]], but cannot be dissolved in [[acid]], unlike the majority of [[items]]. Thus it's possible to dip a burning scroll into a [[bottle]] of sulphuric acid to extinguish the flames with no risk of destroying the scroll.
=== Loricatus Banana Snack ===
You don't need to suffer [[Nutrition|hunger ]] ever again!
Why?
The negative prayer to [[Loricatus]] can result in your equipped [[weapon]] being turned into banana flesh [[Banana Flesh]] - which is edible and delicious. And if you happen to be wielding anything larger than your normal weapon, let's say a large [[chest]], and then pray intentionally too soon several times quickly in a row to anger Loricatus, you will be left with a huger chunk of banana flesh that will last you for many meals.
Be aware, though, that if you anger any god too much, they can send a hostile [[angel ]] after you in addition to the normal negative effect.
=== Permanent States ===
In a strange quirk of coding, permanent [[Status Effects]] are declared in IVAN as simply an effect with a very long duration. This can be exploited by hoarding sources of temporary effects and then using them all at once, increasing the duration of the temporary effect over the permanent limit, at which point the effect will be stoppped from timing out and will be for all intents and purposes permanent. This is obviously very useful, especially as several types of [[monster]] flesh give beneficial status effects. As an example: * Three dead [[floating eye]]s are enough for permanent [[ESP]].* Similarly, three [[Blink Dog]] corpses will grant you permanent [[TeleControl]].* Harder to achieve, but with several [[Wand of Haste|wands of haste]] and a prayer to [[Cleptia]], you might gain permanent [[Haste]]. === Threat Danger Level Reduction === Danger level is a hidden balancing statistic that attempts to portray the current combined strength of your [[character]]'s stats and equipment, which is then used to tweak the difficulty of the game. This is best visible through the generation of weaker or tougher [[monsters]]. However, as monsters are normally generated en masse when you first enter a level, it is possible to partially subvert this in your favour. When entering a level for the first time, take off your most powerful pieces of equipment (especially highly enchanted [[weapons]] and magical [[armor]]). You will appear to the game as weaker than you really are, and it will generate the level populated with correspondingly weaker monsters. This does not outright defeat the danger system, as new monsters will slowly get generated taking your actual danger level in account and monsters will get more powerful at deeper dungeon levels anyway, but it might make your life a little easier at each new level for a while.
== Cheating ==
Cheating is any use of a bug or unintended design flaw for player's gain and will be looked down upon if you have been informed and still tried.
Most of the bugs described below are fixed were present in the upcoming per-[[CVS]] version and were [[Version History|v0.51since]]fixed. ===Acid Rain=== Due to an oversightHowever, as new features are introduced during [[wands]] of [[Wand_of_Acid_Rain:Category:Development|acid raindevelopment]] can destroy terrain without drawing any hostility to the player. In addition, acid puddles left by acid rain also do not draw hostility to the player if stepped in by neutral or friendly characters. Acid rain only turns NPCs hostile if it rains directly onto them. As such, it can be exploited in various ways, such as destroying the sumo arena and covering the floor in acid for an easy win, or causing wandering NPCs like the Patrol guard to melt new bugs are likely to deathcrop up.
=== Save Scumming ===
Save scumming can do more than allow a player to avoid death. Indeed, just about any random element (such as the result of a [[Gods|prayer]], [[items]] generated on a new floor or how much damage a monster inflicts this turn) can be changed this way.
== History ==
Those cheats and exploits were fixed in the [[Version History|newer versions]]. ===Acid Rain=== Due to an oversight, [[Wand of Acid Rain]] could destroy terrain without drawing any hostility to the player. In addition, acid puddles left by acid rain also did not draw hostility to the player if stepped in by neutral or friendly characters. Acid rain only turned NPCs hostile if it rained directly onto them. As such, it could be exploited in various ways, such as destroying the [[Huang Ming Pong|sumo arena]] and covering the floor in acid for an easy win, or causing wandering NPCs like the [[Guard|patrol guard]] to melt to death.
=== Banana Kicking ===
= Variants =
The [[variants]] are not immune to various bugs, of course.
== CLIVAN ==
=== Free Vodka for Everyone ===
In the [[Attnam Catacombs]], there are several shelves full of [[vodka]] that can be taken by the player for free. Selling it will net you enough [[money]] to last you a while.
=== Levitating Assassins ===
[[Assassin]]s are a new [[List of Monsters (LIVAN and CLIVAN)|monster]] with ridiculously low body mass, allowing them to dodge attacks very easily. However, they are so thin that when you manage to dismember one of their body parts, it will end up with negative weight. Thus hoarding severed arms and legs of assassins will allow you to carry more for a while, until the limbs rot away. === Knowledge of the Ancients=== The developer command that lists various spoilery information about the game is made accessible to all players due to an oversight. Just press '*'.
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